Qntal

{{short description|German electro-medieval band}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Qntal

| image = Qntal Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2015 11 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Qntal at the 2015 Wave-Gotik-Treffen

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| landscape = yes

| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = Germany

| genre = Industrial music
Darkwave
Neofolk

| years_active = 1991–present

| label = Gymnastic Records, Stars in the Dark, Noir Records, Drakkar Entertainment

| spinoff_of = Estampie

| website = [http://www.qntal.de/ www.qntal.de]

| current_members = Sigrid Hausen (Syrah)
Michael Popp
Sarah M. Newman (Mariko)
Leon Rodt
Markus Köstner

| past_members = Ernst Horn
Philipp Groth (Fil)

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Qntal is a German "electro-medieval" band founded in 1991 by Michael Popp and Ernst Horn. They later added vocalist Syrah (Sigrid Hausen) to complete the band.

The band has roots in Estampie, an acoustic band based on "authentic" Early music, whereas Qntal is a dark electronic "crossover" project.{{cite journal |last1=Becu |first1=Didier |title=Interview: Qntal |journal=Peek-A-Boo Music Magazine |date=April 2012 |issue=5 |page=16 |url=http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/files/201204-PAB-magazine-n-5.pdf |access-date=8 February 2022 |location=Ghent, BE}} Michael Popp and Syrah are the principal members. Horn left the group in 1999, to concentrate on his other band, Deine Lakaien. He later formed Helium Vola in 2001. Philipp Groth (a.k.a. Fil) then joined Qntal. In 2008, singer and violist Sarah M. Newman (Mariko) left the New York–based band Unto Ashes to work with Qntal and Estampie in Germany.{{cite journal|title=Mariko—Folge deinem Traum |first=Christoph |last=Kutzer |journal=Zillo Medieval |language=de |page=45 |year=2012 |issue=2}}

The band's lyrics are primarily drawn from historical sources. Throughout their first three albums, lyrics were primarily in Latin, medieval German, Galician-Portuguese and a few other European tongues. On Qntal IV, the band added a few songs in English to their body of work. Two tracks from this album, Cupido and Flamma, reached the 2005 DAC, peaking at № 1 and № 8 respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.djcharts.de/jahrescharts2005/DAC/index.html |title=Deutsche Alternative Charts - Jahrescharts 2005 - Top100 Single Charts |publisher=Djcharts.de |access-date=2012-09-27}}

"Qntal" is an unknown word that appeared in one of Syrah's dreams. Pronounced by her as [kɑn-tʌl].

Qntal has headlined at significant goth and industrial music festivals such as Wave-Gotik-Treffen and M'era Luna. Qntal's debut U.S. concert took place in September 2004 at Dracula's Ball in Philadelphia. In 2007, 2008, and 2011 the band was featured in the Bad Faerie Ball at the Baltimore FaerieCon.